Kepimpinan baru tapi adakah cara beroperasi cara baru?

Kepimipinan baru MTUC - Presiden sama, Timbalan dan Setiausaha Agung Baru tapi persoalan adalah sama ada cara bekerja akan TUKAR - kerana nyata cara lama hanya telah melemahkan pergerakan pekerja dan Kesatuan Sekerja.

Cara lama adalah dengen mengemukakan aduan kepada Menteri atau Director General ini dan itu, di mana biasa semua ini dilakukan oleh hanya 'pemimpin' sahaja dengan senyap - dan ia bukan sahaja tidak mendapatkan liputan media massa tetapi juga tidak dimaklumkan kepada warga pekerja. MTUC, sebelum ini, gagal mengunakan laman web, Blog, FB dan kaedah-kaedah kini untuk memaklumkan bukan sahaja warga pekerja tetapi juga orang ramai tentang runggutan/perjuangan pekerja.

MTUC mesti menukar strategi 'membuat aduan dan rayuan' kepada satu strategi perjuangan...di mana ini harus bukan sahaja melibatkan beberapa orang pemimpin tetapi semua pekerja...

MTUC kini dianggap sebagai 'harimau tak bergigi' atau 'toothless tiger', di mana kerajaan kini pun tak lagi menghormati MTUC - bukan saperti dahulu. Ini harus berubah, di mana tumpuan MTUC mesti beredar ke arah pekerja ...memperkuatkan warga pekerja menjadikan mereka lebih sedar mengenai isu pekerja, kepentingan solidariti dan kepentingan berjuang untuk hak semua pekerja ... Mungkin program perhimpunan pekerja di Stadium/Padang yang akan melihat beratusan ribu pekerja berhimpun diperlukan. Tradisi mengadakan perhimpunan dan 'procession' pekerja di semua bandar semasa Hari Buruh (May Day) harus dibuat lagi... MTUC mempunyai kemampuan mengembalikan situasi di mana pekerja kembali dihosmati dan disegani di Malaysia...

President:-                           Mohd Khalid Atan 
Deputy President:-                Abdullah Sani Abdul Hamid
Secretary General:-              N Gopal Krishnan (NUTEAIW)
Deputy Secretary General:-   A Balasubramaniam(UNEPASS)
Financial Secretary:-            Awang Ibrahim(UBIW)
Deputy Financial Secretary:- Harry Tan Hock Huat(NUTP)

Vice President (Private Sector) 
Mohd Khir Mansor 
Maktar Siwang 
Ng Khoo Seong 
J Solomon (NUBE)
Bruno Pereira

Vice President (Public Sector)
Rosni Aziz
Kang Bee Leng
Hashim Adnan

Vice President (Statutory Body)
Ahmad Helmi Ibrahim
Zainal Ismail
Ikmal Azam Thanaraj Abdullah
 
 

Published: Sunday December 22, 2013 MYT 11:00:00 PM
Updated: Sunday December 22, 2013 MYT 11:06:19 PM

Incumbent MTUC president Mohd Khalid retains post

by patrick lee

KUALA LUMPUR: Incumbent MTUC president Mohd Khalid Atan retained his post at the triennial delegates conference on Sunday.

The deputy's post was won by PKR unionist Abdullah Sani Abdul Hamid.

Mohd Khalid received 297 votes to beat incumbent secretary-general Abdul Halim Mansor who garnered 173 votes.

The race for the deputy president's post saw a three-cornered fight between Abdullah Sani, who is PKR's Kuala Langat MP, walking away with 213 votes.

In 2010, Abdullah Sani failed in his bid to become the MTUC secretary-general.

Speaking to reporters, Abdullah Sani said his first course of action would be to form a bipartisan research committee parliamentary caucus to discuss workers' issues.

"I will visit all the states to listen to the problems that we will submit to this committee so that they can be debated in Parliament," he said.

He added that the issues include the minimum wage, foreign workers and the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA).

Mohd Khalid said the MTUC was facing a challenging road ahead, and he hoped to face it head on.

"We have to work together to improve the MTUC, and focus on unity and solidarity among ourselves," he said.

National Union of Transport Equipment and Allied Industries Workers (NUTEAIW) secretary-general N Gopal Krishnan was elected secretary-general while Union of Employees of Port Ancillary Services Suppliers (UNEPASS) secretary A Balasubramaniam won the deputy secretary-general's post.

Union of Beverage Industry Workers's (UBIW) Awang Ibrahim retained his post as MTUC's financial secretary while National Union of Teaching Professional's (NUTP) Harry Tan Hock Huat is the deputy.

Mohd Khir Mansor, Maktar Siwang, Ng Khoo Seong, J Solomon and Bruno Pereira were elected vice-presidents under the private sector category.

Ahmad Helmi Ibrahim, Zainal Ismail and Ikmal Azam Thanaraj Abdullah were elected vice-presidents under the statutory bodies category.

Rosni Aziz, Kang Bee Leng and Hashim Adnan won the vice-presidents post under the public sector without contest.

A total of 473 delegates participated in the vote. The MTUC's new leadership term will run from 2014 to 2016.- Star Online, 22/12/2013,Incumbent MTUC president Mohd Khalid retains post